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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
By Attacking Me, Justice Alito Proved My Point  —  Last month, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the Supreme Court's critics are wrong.  The Court is not “a dangerous cabal” that is “deciding important issues in a novel, secretive, improper way, in the middle of the night, hidden from public view,” he said.
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Alice Miranda Ollstein / Politico:
Divided Supreme Court considers who can defend abortion restrictions  —  A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday weighed which state officials can defend abortion bans in court — a procedural question with implications that extend beyond reproductive health in states where the governor and attorney general hail from opposing parties.
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Insider
Joshua Douglas / Washington Monthly:   Maybe Supreme Court Judges Really Are Driven by Politics
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Focuses on Procedure in Kentucky Abortion Case
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and UPI
American Greatness:
A Southwest Pilot Explains What Happened over the Weekend … Southwest blamed “air traffic control issues” and inclement weather for the cancelled flights, but the problems were actually a direct result of the airline's announcement on October 4 that all of its 56,000 U.S. employees were required …
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Karl Evers-Hillstrom / The Hill:
Texas airlines defy Abbott, comply with Biden vaccine order
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Close to a Deal to Sell Marquee Washington, D.C., Hotel  —  Miami-based CGI Merchant Group in talks to pay ex-president's family company around $370 million for property in former Old Post Office  —  Former President Donald Trump's family company is in advanced discussions to sell …
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Meghan Faulkner / CREW:
The federal government should stop doing business with the Trump Organization  —  Washington —The Trump Organization should be suspended from all federal contracts and programs, according to a referral sent today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the Project …
David Dayen / American Prospect:
The Case for Deliverism  —  Democrats can no longer skate by simply on talking about popular issues.  —  President Joe Biden speaks about COVID-19 vaccinations after touring a Clayco Corporation construction site for a Microsoft data center in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, October 7, 2021.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mark Meadows's deranged Jan. 6 musings on Fox unmask the GOP's corrupt core  —  By now, it should be clear to even the most determined both-sidesing observer that the fate of democracy has itself become a starkly partisan issue.  For Democrats, anti-majoritarian abuses and the future subversion …
Discussion: Raw Story
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Popular-ism and the Democratic Messaging Deficit
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson makes a great point about Fox News's vaccination policy  —  If only such nuance were a feature of the criticisms of Biden's policy  —  A Fox News host on Monday night offered a rare — if brief — commentary on his company's own vaccination policy, even as he and others continue …
Discussion: Townhall and BizPac Review
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Allahpundit / HotAir:
“We are not pretending at all. It's real.”
Discussion: Mediaite
Jeremy Schwartz / ProPublica:
Trump Won the County in a Landslide.  His Supporters Still Hounded the Elections Administrator Until She Resigned.  —  Co-published with The Texas Tribune … An elections administrator in North Texas submitted her resignation Friday, following a monthslong effort by residents and officials loyal …
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Michigan GOP Rep. Wears QAnon Pin at Pro-Trump Protest  —  A Michigan Republican lawmaker wore a pin with a flag with a “Q” on it as she addressed demonstrators at an election protest in Lansing, Michigan supported by former President Donald Trump on Tuesday—and made clear she buys into the sprawling conspiracy theory.
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Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
Michigan representative wears ‘Q’ button to election audit rally
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Axios:
Unruly customers threaten economic recovery  —  The pace of the economic recovery hinges in part on workers returning to jobs that involve dealing with an unpredictable public.  But many of those workers say increasingly combative customers — angry about everything from long wait times to mask mandates — have prompted them to quit.
Eli Rosenberg / Washington Post:
A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage  —  4.3 million people quit their jobs in August, nearly 3 percent of the workforce.  —  The number of people quitting their jobs has surged to record highs, pushed by a combination of factors …
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Covid and Age  —  An unvaccinated child is at less risk of serious Covid illness than a vaccinated 70-year-old.  —  Emily Oster, an economist at Brown University who frequently writes about parenting, published an article in The Atlantic in March that made a lot of people angry.
Discussion: Twitchy
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
BREAKING: Pelosi caves on reconciliation?  —  Get ready for the recriminations, because this won't end the internecine warfare taking place among Democrats.  A few moments ago in her daily presser, Nancy Pelosi apparently signaled a retreat on the $3.5 trillion price tag on the progressive wish-list reconciliation bill:
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
‘Hiding the Ball’: Hunter Biden Complicates White House Anti-Corruption Push  —  During the presidential campaign, liberals had plenty of reason to tune out the Hunter Biden story.  —  For one, it was being pushed by Donald Trump, whose administration was awash in ethics scandals of its own …
New York Times:
Raiders Coach Resigns After Homophobic and Misogynistic Emails  —  A trove of emails in a separate workplace misconduct case shows Raiders Coach Jon Gruden went beyond previously disclosed racist comments to issue broad tirades.  —  Jon Gruden stepped down Monday as the coach …
Parker Molloy / The Present Age:
I'm not asking comedians to stop telling trans jokes.  I'm asking them to stop telling *the same* trans jokes over and over.  —  How many variations on “I identify as...” do we need in this world?  —  To be entirely honest, I didn't know Dave Chappelle had a new stand-up special out until …
Discussion: The Indian Express and RedState
Jonathan Larsen / TYT Network:
Franklin Graham Is Secretly Bankrolling the National Prayer Breakfast  —  One of a series about the Fellowship Foundation, the secretive religious group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast and is popularly known as The Family.  This series is based on Family documents obtained by TYT …
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Revealed: Facebook's Secret Blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” … To ward off accusations that it helps terrorists spread propaganda, Facebook has for many years barred users from speaking freely about people and groups it says promote violence.
Aaron Sibarium / Washington Free Beacon:
Leaked Docs: Prestigious DC School Poised To Crack Down on ‘Harmful’ Humor  —  Students at one of the oldest and most prestigious boys schools in the United States could soon face expulsion for a single “misplaced” joke, according to a draft “anti-bias” policy circulating among school administrators …
Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Apple CEO's Anti-Leak Edict Broke Law, Ex-Employee Alleges  — Gjovik, fired from Apple last month, files new NLRB complaints  — CEO Tim Cook warned employees that Apple was pursuing leakers  —  Apple Inc.'s restrictive employee handbook rules and Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook's recent pledge …
Ted Osius / Salon:
Behind the scenes of Donald Trump's very strange White House meeting with Vietnam's prime minister  —  Nothing in my 30-year diplomatic career prepared me for this Trump administration event  —  In mid-May of 2017, Robert Lighthizer, the new U.S. trade representative, came to Vietnam for an APEC ministerial-level meeting.
Discussion: HuffPost and Rolling Stone
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
White House says it didn't pick kids in Harris YouTube video  —  The White House on Tuesday said it did not select the children, reportedly child actors, who appeared in a YouTube video with Vice President Harris.  —  The video has led to mockery of Harris by some Republicans …
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
Trump to Skip 2024 Campaign and Go Straight to Claiming He Won  —  PALM BEACH (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump will skip the 2024 campaign and go straight to claiming that he won, the former reality-show host has confirmed.  —  Speaking to reporters, Trump said that campaigning in 2024 would be …
Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Cheney campaign sees second-highest fundraising quarter  —  Rep. Liz Cheney's House reelection campaign enjoyed its second-biggest fundraising quarter ever this summer, a Cheney aide told the Star-Tribune.  The donations came on the heels of Cheney's all-time fundraising record, which occurred one quarter earlier.
Reuters:
“There will be things that people can't get,” at Christmas, White House warns  —  White House officials, scrambling to relieve global supply bottlenecks choking U.S. ports, highways and railways, warn Americans may face higher prices and some empty shelves this Christmas season.
Discussion: Breitbart
PNAS:
Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination  —  aDepartment of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;  —  bUniversity of Virginia Equity Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903;
Jasper Scherer / Houston Chronicle:
Prompted by Abbott primary challenger, Texas agency removed webpage with suicide hotline, other resources for LGBTQ youth  —  In late August, one of Gov. Greg Abbott's primary challengers, Don Huffines, accused Texas' child welfare agency of “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth” …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Embassy Staff in Colombia Struck With Havana Syndrome Ahead of Blinken Visit  —  U.S. official said there were at least two known cases of the mysterious neurological affliction  —  The U.S. Embassy in Colombia is investigating several cases of the mysterious neurological affliction known …
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Dear Democrats: Only 10% of People Even Know What You Are Fighting For  —  Even if Democrats can pass their big bill, they won't be able to sell it.  —  (PHOTOS: GETTYIMAGES / SHUTTERSTOCK)  —  Quick: What is in the Democrats' $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better,” “Human Infrastructure,” …
Discussion: Raw Story
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Pelosi backs ending congressional control over debt limit  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday signaled support for giving the Treasury Department unilateral authority to raise the debt limit and ending the requirement for congressional approval.  —  “I do think it has merit,” the California Democrat told reporters.
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
 
 
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U.S. sees biggest revenue surge in 44 years despite pandemic
Fox News:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw debuts children's book warning against cancel culture
Discussion: Raw Story and IJR
Sarakshi Rai / The Hill:
Prince Charles says his Aston Martin runs on wine and cheese byproducts
 Earlier Items: 
Carolyn Kormann / New Yorker:
The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory
Margaret Talev / Axios:
Axios-Ipsos poll: Biden is losing COVID trust
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR and Alternet.org
KFF:
Large Majorities Across Parties Favor Allowing the Federal Government to Negotiate Drug Prices, Even After Hearing Common Arguments About It
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The GOP alliance with Europe's far-right deepens
 

 
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